Music Therapy Fall Seminar 

Students and faculty from across the university are invited to attend the Fall Music Therapy Seminar in the new Music Rehearsal Hall. The seminar will feature upper-level music therapy students showcasing their clinical work from the semester, followed by a presentation from Dr. Carolyn Moore titled: "I Have a Love-Hate Relationship with Self-Care (and Maybe You Do Too): A Music Therapy Conversation."

Dr. Carolyn Moore, PhD, MT-BC, has been a board-certified music therapist since 2006 and serves as graduate faculty in the Master of Music Therapy program at Georgia College & State University. She has taught at Sam Houston State University and Indiana University. She completed her music therapy studies at Montclair State University and holds graduate degrees from the University of Miami, where she also worked closely with music education and music therapy students as a graduate assistant. For more than a decade, Moore’s academic, clinical and research work has focused on understanding self-care in music therapy training — how students define it, where they struggle. and what supports them.

In her session, “I Have a Love–Hate Relationship with Self-Care (and Maybe You Do Too): A Music Therapy Conversation,” Moore offers an honest, research-guided and deeply student-centered look at what self-care actually feels like for music therapy majors. She shares findings from her collaborative research with students, weaving in themes such as the pressure to “do self-care right,” the gap between intention and reality and the ways music students often rely on creative, social and communal forms of care.

Grounded in the belief that care is unconditional — not something we earn by being productive or perfectly balanced — Moore also offers transparent reflections from her own life as a student, clinician and faculty member. She highlights how self-care can feel messy, complicated, humorous and deeply human, and how being a music student brings unique challenges that many common self-care messages simply don’t account for.

This presentation invites students (and faculty) into a compassionate, realistic conversation about caring for ourselves in a field that asks us to draw on so many parts of who we are. Through research, lived experience and shared stories, Moore encourages participants to rethink self-care in ways that feel accessible, personal and rooted in both community and authenticity.

We hope you will join us for Dr. Moore's presentation and for our Upper-Level Clinical Poster Session which includes students' practicum work with children in a variety of facilities across Central Georgia:
* Little Caterpillars Developmental Center
* Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital
* Lakeview Academy
* Lakeview Primary
* Oak Hill Middle School
* Montessori Academy